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Lukewarm and loving it

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

It doesn’t seem fair that the worst times drag on forever and good times go by all too quickly. This week in particular was neither really great nor really bad, though, so it went by about as quickly as you could expect. It was a week a bit like the intro to Tale of Two Cities, so I suppose the best times and the worst averaged out to be, well, average. I’ll take that! Hey, lukewarm is a vast improvement…

I thought this week was going to be awful seeing as how I was back in training full-time at work again. It actually turned out all right in the end, although I’m only halfway done now and still have the worst part (a presentation in front of my boss and my boss’ boss) ahead of me. The people in my training class have been really nice and fun, so it’s made it a lot easier than it otherwise would have been. Unless you consider learning how to install and customize application virtualization software a good time, in which case the activities alone and the 1,000+ page book would be all you could ever ask for.

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Alisha and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Friday, July 7th, 2006

My mom told me that when I was in elementary school, after my class read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day we were given the assignment to write about our very own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days–mine ended up being all about my terrible, horrible, no good, very bad mom…and, so far, she hasn’t let me live to forget about it (not that I even remember writing it in the first place). Well, today the theme remained the same, but my mother will be happy to know she is in no way culpable for what was one of the worst overall days I’ve had in recent memory. Now I shall proceed with the melodramatic whining…

Everyone has those days when nothing seems to go right, and I’m sure that we all feel like we get more than our fair share of these particular days…but I’m convinced that this actually is the case for me. I’ve decided that my life’s equilibrium settles at a frustrating, yet seemingly manageable level of crappiness, interspersed with brief periods of excitement and/or happiness. My one comfort is that I’m fully able to appreciate those moments of happiness because they are so completely out of the ordinary for me. But as happens in science, equilibrium is eventually reestablished, and life reverts back to mediocrity and mundanity, sprinkled with encounters with incompetence for good measure. Queue the government workers.

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FL on TV

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
When Kelly and I went out to the Riverfront Saturday, Kelly mentioned that one of the clubs we went to, China White, had been shown on The Real World: Key West when the housemates had evacuated to Fort Lauderdale to ... [Continue reading this entry]

Work in the Bahamas? Don’t twist my arm…

Monday, June 19th, 2006
I promise, this will be my last comment about lizards (maybe)...they are so unbelievably HUGE down here! I was at Home Depot yesterday wandering around the garden section and I saw this little lizard, like the cute green ones that ... [Continue reading this entry]

Czech Republic, how could you do this to me?

Monday, June 12th, 2006
I loved the Czech Republic when I visited last summer. Prague is beautiful, and was near the top of my list of the most beautiful places I'd ever been. The best hostel in the world is there, and the rowdy, ... [Continue reading this entry]

Working girl

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
No, not that kind of working girl. After four months of being a woman of leisure, I've finally broken the precedent the federal government set before me and am no longer running a budget deficit! That's right, after months of steadily ... [Continue reading this entry]

Starting over…again

Sunday, June 4th, 2006
I just realized the title of this post sounds like a self-help book for divorcees! Awww. The fact remains that I am starting over yet again, with a new place, a new job, and new faces. I ... [Continue reading this entry]

Packages, Portobello Road, and Kinky Boots

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
It came it came!!! The first instalment of what I hope will be very many packages full of good ol' American TV DVDs has finally arrived! I went to the post office this morning on my way to work to ... [Continue reading this entry]

From my desk looking out onto the Thames

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Okay, so the desk isn't mine and I'm only here for half a day, but the view is pretty darn amazing anyway. Another day, another job. Today finds me working for a charity called Wateraid, a group that works to ... [Continue reading this entry]